MUSEU DE LEIRIA

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December 15 and 16, 2018 - International Conference

O Menino do Lapedo

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15 e 16 de dezembro 2018 - Conferência Internacional O Menino do Lapedo

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DECEMBER 15, 2018

Welcoming of participants 09:30 Receção aos visitantes 09:30

Opening ceremony 10:00 Cerimónia de abertura 10:00

10:30 - 13:00 1. João Zilhão (10:30-11:00) ICREA, Barcelona University; UNIARQ, University of Lisbon, ICREA, Universidade de Barcelona; UNIARQ, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Title: To Be or Not to Be: Neandertals and Humanness, Twenty Years After Lagar Velho Título: Ser ou não ser: Neandertais e humanidade, vinte anos depois de Lagar Velho

The notion that the Lagar Velho child’s mosaic of anatomic features showed that Neandertal/modern contact had resulted in extensive admixture and, eventually, disappearance-through-assimilation of the Neandertal phenotype, is now twenty years old. At the time, these propositions were the object of intense debate, but subsequent discoveries, namely of the Oase fossils of Romania, and the advent of nuclear genomics, have now settled the issue. The fundamental implication of these developments in Physical Anthropology and Paleogenetics was that no distinction at species level existed between the two sides of these biological interactions, with all the corresponding implications for the associated issues of putative difference in language skills, cognitive ability, culture, or technology — as indeed intimated by the archeological evidence accumulated in parallel. Yet, even though the “interbreeding debate” is now essentially a thing of the past, academic resistance to the acceptance of the Neandertals’ sapient-ness remains almost as strong as ever — cf. the reactions of many scholars to the recent news that they had been the world’s first cave artists and the people among which we find the earliest evidence for body painting and personal ornamentation. I will present these results, will discuss the arguments upon which objections to them have been raised, and conclude with a reflection on whether — just like those that followed the discovery of the Lagar Velho child — current Neandertal Organizing Committee: Ana Cristina Araújo (Archaeosciences Laboratory (LARC) from DGPC), Ana Maria Costa (Archaeosciences debates may well inform us a lot more about the present than they do about the past. Laboratory (LARC) from DGPC), Vânia Carvalho (Leiria Museum) Comissão organizadora: Ana Cristina Araújo (Laboratório de Arqueociências (LARC) da DGPC), Ana Maria Costa (Laboratório de Arqueociências (LARC) da DGPC), Vânia Carvalho (Museu de Leiria) Keywords: Neandertals; Modern ; Cave Art; in broader ethological phenomena. Drawing on research into the corpse disposal Palavras-chave: Neandertais; Humanos Modernos; Arte das Cavernas; Comportamento activities of several animal taxa, I hope to show that Palaeolithic burials share a very Moderno deep evolutionary inheritance. Although the term ‘burial’ is appropriate for the three- Coffee break | Pausa para café (11:00-11:30) stage physical process (dig a hole; put the corpse in it; cover it up) I suggest that for the 2. Juan Luis Arsuaga (11:30-12:00) underlying reasons for it suggest that ‘Neoclaustralisation’ may be a more appropriate Complutense University of Madrid, Spain term, and suggest that the Lapedo Child is an exemplar of cultural elaboration of this Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Espanha deep rooted behaviour.

Title: Before Keywords: Burial; Thanatology; Gravettian; Magdalenian Título: Antes dos Neandertais Palavras-chave: Tanatologia; Gravetense; Madalenense

The caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca in Burgos (Spain) have yielded numerous human Debate 12:30 - 13:00 fossils in the last 40 years. Among them is a foot phalanx, but the other findings correspond to fossils much earlier in time. The oldest deposit, more than one Lunch (free) | Almoço (livre) 13:00 - 14:15 million years old, is called Sima del Elefante, where a hand phalanx and a mandible have been found. We can guess from the age of the fossils that is the 14:30 - 17:30 species. Another Atapuerca site, Gran Dolina, has provided abundant 800,000-year- 4. Eugénia Cunha (14:30-15:00) old fossils that the Atapuerca researchers consider another species: . INMLCF, IP; Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, Finally, the Sima de los Huesos deposit contains the skeletons of almost 30 individuals University of Coimbra, Portugal dated to 430,000 years, who belong to the Neanderthal lineage. All these extraordinary INMLCF, IP; Centro de Ecologia Funcional/ Departamento de Ciências da Vida, fossils allow us to study the evolution of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. It is now Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal clear, thanks to the Sima de los Huesos fossils that in the Neanderthal lineage the face and teeth evolved first, and later evolved the brain. The same thing seems to have Title: Twenty years of postgraduate teaching in happened in Africa with the origin of Homo sapiens. Título: Vinte anos de ensino graduado em Evolução Humana

Keywords: Atapuerca sites; Neandertal evolution Abstract Palavras-chave: Sítios de Atapuerca; Evolução dos Neandertais Twenty years past the launching of the Master’s degree aimed at the training and dissemination of Human Evolution & Biology at the University of Coimbra, it is now time for a retrospective. It is pertinent to make an evaluation regarding the curricular 3. Paul Pettitt (12:00-12:30) progress of the course, shaped by novel data generated by ground-breaking research, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, United Kingdom thus promoting an escalating impact and interest in Human Evolution in our Departamento de Arqueologia da Universidade de Durham, Reino Unido society. A critical analysis of the course will be carried out including the highlighting of successful cases – e.g. thesis and papers with the highest impact – as well as least Title: Digging holes. Palaeolithic ‘burials’ in wider thanatological context positive aspects. Forecasts of the future evolution of this Master’s degree will also be Título: Escavar buracos. Enterramentos paleolíticos em contexto tanatológico mais discussed. alargado Keywords: Human evolution; Training; Social impact Abstract Palavras-chave: Evolução humana; Educação; Impacto social Over the last century, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic burials have come to be central to notions of ‘modern’ human behaviour and even symbolic systems, occupying a 5. Johannes Krause (15:00-15:30) central role in the academic and popular dissemination of human evolution. But Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany were they that numerous, or were they that special? I review here the existing data Instituto Max Planck para a Ciência da História Humana, Alemanha on burials of Pleistocene Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in wider biological context. I argue that the Lapedo child burial and others similar to it are easily understood Title: The genetic history of Ice Age Europe Title: The Lagar Velho Child and Perspectives on Sex and Death in the Earlier Título: A história genética da Idade do gelo na Europa Título: A criança do Lagar Velho e perspetivas sobre sexo e morte no Paleolítico Superior antigo Abstract The application of high throughput DNA sequencing technologies to ancient human Abstract skeletal remains has revolutionized the study of human mobility patterns and The 1998 discovery of a child in the Lapedo Valley provided the first “red ochre” burial population dynamics through time. Recent years have witnessed a shift from studying in extreme southwestern Europe, raised questions about Gravettian mortuary behavior, short mitochondrial DNA fragments to entire ancient human genomes, enabling the and reopened the discussion of Neandertal-modern human relationships. identification of genetic changes in modern human populations from the Pleistocene The suggestion that it provided morphological evidence of Neandertal-modern to historical time periods around the globe. The direct comparison of ancient and intimate behavior generated global attention; the idea was neither novel nor modern genetic data, in combination with temporal transects in various regions of the revolutionary, and it has now become universally accepted. Lost in the debate was world, allows to identify genetic turnovers, to test for genetic continuity or for local our primary conclusion: that they saw each other as appropriate mates, and hence it extinctions of human populations. Despite the great progress and thousands of ancient reinforced the humanity of the Neandertals. human genomes published, little is currently known about the genetic history of Ice Also largely lost in discussion were our thoughts on age, sex and burial patterns in Age Europeans. So far only a few dozen individuals from Late Pleistocene Europe the earlier Upper Paleolithic. As a single burial of a juvenile, Lagar Velho 1 remains have been successfully analyzed. Here the genome-wide data currently available for unusual, but new discoveries and reassessments have provided a more complex and Pleistocene European hunter gatherers will be reviewed. The data suggests that over nuanced perspective. Variously elaborated burials are known from neonates to the the last 40.000 years, the proportion of Neanderthal DNA decreased from 3–6% elderly. They remain late adolescent to adult and male biased. Grave goods are rare, to around 2%, consistent with natural selection against Neanderthal variants in but personal decoration is ubiquitous. The biologically unusual are over-represented, modern humans. It will be shown that the earliest modern humans in Europe did not evidence of postmortem body manipulation is common, and many were not buried. contribute substantially to present-day Europeans, all individuals between ~37,000 and From this a complex and dynamic mortuary (and hence social) milieu is emerging, far ~14,000 years ago descended from a single founder population which forms part of more relevant than issues of ancestral purity. the ancestry of present-day Europeans. A ~35,000-year-old individual from northwest Europe represents an early branch of this founder population which was then displaced Keywords: Burial; Mortuary; Early modern humans; Neandertals across a broad region, before reappearing in southwest Europe during the last ice age Palavras-chave: Enterramento; Mortuária; Antigos Humanos Modernos; Neandertais ~19,000 years ago. During the major warming period after ~14,000 years ago, a new genetic component related to present-day Near Easterners appears in Europe. These Debate 16:30 - 17:00 results document how population turnover and migration have been recurring themes of European pre-history but also highlight the need for additional genomic data from DECEMBER 16, 2018 Pleistocene hunter gatherers. 10:00 – 13:00 Keywords: Human history; Pleistocene hunter gatherers; Ancient DNA; Human Field trip to Lagar Velho rock-shelter (Lapedo valley) and visit to the Lagar Velho mobility Interpretation Centre (CIALV) Palavras-chave: História humana; Caçadores-recolectores do Pleistoceno; ADN antigo; Excursão ao (Vale do Lapedo) e visita ao Centro de Interpretação Mobilidade humana do Abrigo do Lagar Velho (CIALV)

Coffee break | Pausa para café (15:30-16:00) With the participation of João Zilhão, Cidália Duarte and Joan Daura (Lagar Velho 6. Erik Trinkaus (16:00-16:30) rockshelter); Pedro Ferreira (CIALV) Department of Anthropology, Washington University, Saint Louis MO 63130, USA Com a participação de João Zilhão, Cidália Duarte e Joan Daura (Abrigo do Lagar Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Washington, Saint Louis, EUA Velho); Pedro Ferreira (CIALV) ORGANIZAÇÃO PARCERIAS